Event Date: November 10, 2011 - 5:00 pm
Location: TBD

MARCO SASSÒLI, University of Geneva.

Presented by the Human Rights Research and Education Center and CIPS.
Free. In French with a biligual question period. Registration is not required.

Marco Sassòli is professor and director of the Department of international law and international organisation of the University of Geneva. From 2001 to 2003, Marco Sassòli was Professor of International Law at the University of Québec in Montréal, where he remains Associate Professor. He chairs the Board of Geneva Call, an NGO which engages with armed non-State actors to adhere to humanitarian norms. He is also Vice-Chair of the Board of the International Council of Human Rights Policy.  He graduated with a Doctor of Laws from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and is member of the Swiss Bar. He worked from 1985 to 1997 for the International Committee of the Red Cross, at its headquarters in Geneva, inter alia as deputy head of its legal division, and in the field, inter alia as head of delegation in Jordan and Syria and as protection coordinator for the former Yugoslavia.

This event is part of the International Human Rights Speakers Series.